34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it. [1] 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and doest not let their cattle to decrease. 39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. [2] 41 Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. [3] 42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
PSALM 108.
A Song or Psalm of David.
O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth to the clouds. [4]
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down our enemies.
PSALM 109.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. [5] [6]
3 They surrounded me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. [7]
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. [8]
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. [9]
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. [10]
19 Let it be to him as the garment which covereth him, and for a belt with which he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach to them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. [11]
PSALM 110.
A Psalm of David.
The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. [12]
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. [13]
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
PSALM 111.
Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. [14]
2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out by
- ↑ barrenness: Heb. saltiness
- ↑ wilderness: or, void place
- ↑ from: or, after
- ↑ clouds: or, skies
- ↑ of the deceitful: Heb. of deceit
- ↑ are opened: Heb. have opened themselves
- ↑ Satan: or, an adversary
- ↑ be condemned: Heb. go out guilty, or, wicked
- ↑ office: or, charge
- ↑ into his bowels: Heb. within him
- ↑ those...: Heb. the judges of
- ↑ from...: or, more than the womb of the morning: thou shalt have, etc
- ↑ many: or, great
- ↑ Praise ye...: Heb. Hallelujah
